The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared the governorship election in Adamawa State inconclusive.

After the announcement of results from the 21 local government areas of the state, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is leading with highest votes.

But the Commission said the cancelled votes were more than the margin of victory between Fintiri and the runner-up, Aisha Dahiru of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

At the end of the official tally of results, Fintiri is leading Dahiru, popularly called Binani, with a margin of over 31,000 votes.

The incumbent governor scored 421, 524 votes while Dahiru won 390, 275 votes.

Fintiri also won the election in 13 of Adamawa’s 21 local government areas while Binani won in the remaining eight.

 

See the result as declared by INEC below.

Final Governorship Results as declared by INEC:

No Reg Voters: 2196566

No Acc Voters: 859964

 

AA – 641

ADC – 2996

ADP – 2134

APC – 390275

APGA – 876

APM – 603

APP – 284

LP – 2729

NNPP – 4847

NRM – 1237

PDP – 421524

PRP – 1185

SDP – 6865

YPP – 1425

ZLP – 199

Total valid Votes: 837820

Rejected votes: 14888

Total Vote cast: 852708

It is the second governorship election that would be declared inconclusive after the Commission, earlier in the day, also declared the Kebbi election inconclusive.